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Yahya said that Malik related from Ibn Shihab from Salim ibn
Abdullah ibn Umar from his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab said,
"What's the matter with men who have intercourse with their slave-
girls and then dismiss them? No slave-girl comes to me whose master
confesses that he has had intercourse with her but that I connect her
child to him, whether or not he has practised coitus interruptus or
stopped having intercourse with her."
Muwatta Malik Book 36, Hadith 35
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Yahya said that he heard Malik say, "The way of doing things
generally agreed upon in our community in the case of a man who dies
and has sons and one of them claims, 'My father confirmed that so-and-
so was his son,' is that the relationship is not established by the
testimony of one man, and the confirmation of the one who confirmed it
is only permitted as regards his own share in the division of his
father's property. The one testified for is only given his due from
the share of the testifier."
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Malik related to me from Nafi that Safiyya bint Abi Ubayd
informed him that Umar ibn al-Khattab said, "What is the matter with
men who have intercourse with their slave-girls and then leave them to
go? No slave-girl comes to me whose master confesses that he has had
intercourse with her but that I connect her child to him, whether or
not he has practised coitus interruptus or left off from intercourse
with her."